r/law 19d ago

Legal News House GOP moves swiftly to impeach judge Boasberg targeted by Trump (Deportation Planes)

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/donald-trump-impeach-judge-house-republicans
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u/buggytehol 19d ago

No one who follows law closely ever believed this

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u/Guy954 19d ago

Or even casually.

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u/Sarahclaire54 19d ago

Or even at all!

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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 19d ago

raises hand this is still fucked though, right?

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u/wamyen1985 19d ago

That guy in the park who tries to give people legal advice when the Ranger tries to kick someone out for smoking weed... Yeah, even he knows this is crap.

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u/speedneeds84 19d ago

Originalist has always been doublespeak for “cherry-pick history to suit my narrative while smugly pretending to be superior.”

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u/Either-Bell-7560 19d ago

Nobody with half a brain is really an originalist. It's an intellectually void position. The constitution literally has instructions on how to change it.

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u/bollvirtuoso 19d ago

Well, I don't know. How could Thomas disagree with the definition of "citizen" or perhaps even "human" at the time the Constitution was written? What about that is intellectually-void?

/s in case necessary.

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u/DevelopmentEastern75 19d ago

Yeah their ruling on Bruen really looked like they were throwing Originalism out the window the moment it became inconvenient for them, lol. Can't wait for more Galaxy-Brain opinions from Thomas the next four years.

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u/bagoink 19d ago

No one who is literate ever believed this.

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u/bollvirtuoso 19d ago

Scalia might actually have been. Rarely agreed with him, but at least his dissents were often interesting reads, and shared a moral principle that the current members of the majority court seem to lack, unless that principle is "whatever the GOP wants".